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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation--An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg
(5 comments) Angola was and is still is very much a slave plantation. At 18,000 acres, it is the largest prison in the US--the only prison with its own zip code. The patterns established in the old south have proliferated and expanded throughout the US, as African Americans are disproportionately policed, prosecuted, convicted,disenfranchised and imprisoned in the prison industrial complex.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Slavery in US Prisons--An interview with Robert Hillary King and Dr. Terry Kupers (video)
In this new video, Robert King and Dr. Terry Kupers, argue that slavery persists today in Angola and other U.S. prisons, citing the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which legalizes slavery in prisons as "a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." As King says: "You can be legally incarcerated but morally innocent."

Saturday, January 2, 2010
Kiilu Nyasha & Emory Douglas: Remember Oscar Grant, Resist Police Brutality and Murder (with video)
Exactly one year ago, in the early hours of January 1st, 2009, twenty two year-old Oscar Grant III was murdered by white BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Emory Douglas first served as the art director for the Black Panther Party's newspaper, and later served as Minister of Culture until 1980. Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Video Interview With Kiilu Nyasha: Counterrevolution in the United States
This new video focuses on the counterrevolution launched against the Black Panther Party, other 1960's revolutionary groups, and the poor and oppressed communities that these groups were organizing. This is the second video released from the hour-long interview conducted by Angola 3 News with Kiilu Nyasha at her home in San Francisco, CA in November, 2009.

Friday, November 20, 2009
The Arrest and Torture of Syed Hashmi --an interview with Jeanne Theoharis
(4 comments) Jeanne Theoharis is the author of an April, 2009 article in The Nation, entitled “Guantanamo At Home,” which focuses on the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of US citizen Syed Hashmi in a New York City prison with Guantanamo-like conditions. Hashmi's trial will begin in New York City on December 1.

Monday, November 16, 2009
Confronting Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons --an interview with Bret Grote of HRC/Fed Up!
(1 comments) While covering a range of topics in this interview, Grote details how HRC/Fed Up! is documenting human rights abuses in Pennsylvania prisons, and using this documentation to fight back.

Saturday, October 24, 2009
Torturing Women Prisoners -- an interview with Victoria Law
(2 comments) Victoria Law is the author of the new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. She explains: "Even when they are not being physically assaulted, the women have no privacy—toilets are in full view of the cell door windows, guards can look through those windows at any time and, in many prisons, male guards can watch the women in the showers, on the toilet or when they are trying to dress or undress."